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Staff

Dr. Remi Kahane, Interim Executive Secretary

Jerry Miner, Webmaster & Communication Consultant

 

 

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Secretariat

The Global Horticulture Initiative Secretariat, hosting administrative, technical and virtual network operations, was initially based at AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center headquarters in Taiwan, to minimize operational and start-up infrastructural costs. Currently the Secretariat of the Global Horticulture Initiative has found its ground at the AVRDC’s Regional Center for Africa, which has over 10 years of experience in its global mandate: vegetable research and development.

Administrative Duties
The Global Horticulture Initiative Secretariat is providing administrative support to the Global Horticulture Initiative interim Executive Committee and the Advisory Group through its administration staff. The staff will handle fiscal affairs, budgetary and personnel issues, administrative management aspects, and legal and logistic support.

Communication and Strategic Capacity
Technical staff will be responsible for planning and implementing the work agenda, covering all of the research for development themes. This staff duty will also include the information and communication networks. The networking partners are not necessarily gathered in one place, and will therefore benefit from the virtual status of the Global Horticulture Initiative.

Monitoring and Evaluation
The monitoring and evaluation activities would appraise the impact of Global Horticulture Initiative operations and propose adjustments to increase effectiveness. Evaluations will be mainly conducted by a virtual group of external agents that will report to the Global Horticulture Initiative Secretariat.

Secretariat Staff

Dr. Remi Kahane, Interim Executive Secretary, Executive Secretary of the Global Horticulture Initiative (2007-2010), worked as Allium crops specialist in tissue culture and breeding for a French  farmers’ cooperative (1987-2001) and was Horticulture Project Manager at CIRAD (2002-2006). He has developed an intensive knowledge of vegetable farming in more than 20 tropical countries, strengthened vanilla research program and urban horticulture initiative in CIRAD and ISHS, expanded its European research outputs on Allium into tropical areas with seed companies or with AVRDC, and contributed to capacity building through research papers, PhD and MSc supervision and lectures or training courses at university or private sector level. 

Jerry Miner is the GlobalHort Webmaster and Communication Consultant.  He has his masters degree in Information Science from the University of Toronto and presently resides in Nova Scotia, Canada.  He has worked as an information professional in an Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada horticultural research centre from 1970-2010. He previously worked at the University of Saskatchewan, the University of New Brunswick. Acadia University and the Nova Scotia Department of Education.  Having worked on the GlobalHort staff in Tanzania in 1978 Mr. Miner is now on contract with GlobalHort. In 2011. He was elected for a three-year period as a general board member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD).